10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

The best test of that proposition, of course, is to repeat it to any one of the hundreds of thousands of birders who have, say, a family. The medieval flint churches of Norfolk stand right in the center of the most exciting birding in England, and our Black Sea cruises from port to historic port feature Dalmatian Pelicans and Audouin Gulls.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 27, 2016

By the cliffs we find several Eurasian Crag-Martins and a consolation species – a family of Golden Eagles in the air! Among them are Dalmatian Pelicans , so big and lazy. The WBW remained elusive like a bear (for me at least – a month ago, Georgos met a mother with two cubs, took a few photos, then dropped down and played dead).

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Greece Boars Woodpeckers Eagles 251

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

Together, they are placed in the family Threskiornithidae, and they’re related to herons and egrets, pelicans, and the strange Hamerkop and Shoebill. Meanwhile, perhaps the AOU will now have enough published evidence to revise its subfamily treatment of this interesting family.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

In 2008, with my family decided to build the Limneo Lodge , a small accommodation with only 9 rooms. Also Dalmatian and Great White Pelicans are resident species, breeding successfully on artificial platforms (close to 300 pairs). My name is Nikos Gallios.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2023

While enjoying the family of Wattled Jacanas , a female Green Kingfisher flew in to an overhanging branch and sat there for several minutes. For me, there is little difference between this experience and another where the birds are habituated to human presence, pelicans coming in to grab bycatch from fishermen or storks at a landfill even.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

Brown Pelicans , and the northernmost Brown Booby breeding colony on this side of the Pacific. Ringer Anhingas and darters , cormorants and shags , frigatebirds , gannets and boobies , pelicans , and the tropicbirds all share a characteristic found in no other living bird: Their feet are totipalmate.

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2011 Pelicans Papua New Guinea California 152

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Part of its attraction lies in it being a monotypic bird in the family Hypocoliidae – there are no other bird species in its genus and family. As a proof, two Dalmatian Pelicans are flying low above us, while a Bluethroat disappears into the nearby bush. Or because it is endangered – it isn’t. The Sun is just rising.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 15, 2011

The order Suliformes holds a lot of special birds from anhingas and darters to cormorants and shags as well as frigatebirds, pelicans, and tropicbirds. But the sleekest of the sulids may be found in the family Sulidae.

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Ecuador Peru Hunters Pelicans 181

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 2, 2015

It’s a family vacation, sure, but there’s always time for birding and in Florida, the birding often finds you. But on the morning when my dad and I found them, they were clustered around the entrance to their burrows at the Pelican Boulevard Baseball Fields, a well-known spot for the birds.

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Owls Tenant Florida United States 198

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 16, 2013

Back in December when my family and I were in southern California we planned a day trip out to Crystal Cove State Park in southern Orange County. And Crystal Cove is the perfect beach for a birder with family in tow. Snowy Plover Charadrius alexandrinus. Sanderlings Calidris alba. Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus.

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California Pelicans Family Rights 134

10,000 Birds

MARCH 24, 2024

There are beautiful beaches, a plethora of amazing food and drinks, a multitude of family fun locations, a world-renowned zoo, and one of the biggest birding festivals in the US. My family visited San Diego every year as part of a Disneyland-SoCal Road trip to escape the rainy Christmases at home near Portland, Oregon.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 30, 2013

Brown Pelican Lapland Longspur Sooty Shearwater Whimbrel. We had a family picnic at Fort Tilden less than two weeks after my last set of predictions and a single Purple Martin was flying low over the fields with Barn Swallows and Tree Swallows. Number 300 in Queens!

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2012 New York City Jamaica 2013 158

10,000 Birds

MAY 9, 2024

Back when I was a kid growing up in California’s San Mateo County in the 60s and 70s, my family would occasionally drive 45 minutes west and south to Bean Hollow State Beach. and my first member of the auk/puffin family. The day was rounded out by many, many Brown Pelicans , two Black Oystercatchers (lifer!),

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California Sea Lions Marine Life Puffins 183

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Say’s Phoebe – A self-found rarity at Edgemere while accompanied by my family made my day back on 05 October 2014. Golden Eagle – Two weeks to the day after the Say’s Phoebe I was once again at Edgemere with my family and picked up a Golden Eagle flying past , a surprise bird for sure!

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2019

Clearly, author Phyllis Limbacher Tildes, the author of 24, soon to be 25, children’s books, is also a birder (and a little research brings up a presentation she gave at Ogeechee Audubon, Georgia with the biographical information and she and her family “love watching birds and wildlife seen near their lagoon on Skidaway Island.”

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New York City Pelicans Penguins New York 146

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 31, 2019

I also spent a week in northwestern Costa Rica on a family vacation, a long weekend in Barbados, a week in Georgia, and two week-plus-long trips to visit relatives in southern California. Number 8 – Brown Pelican. It was a long wait but well worth it and Brown Pelican is an easy addition to my top ten list.

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2019 Barbados Uganda Costa Rica 138

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

Ivy and I scored some rare vagrants at Montezuma NWR–which has been awful for shorebirds this summer–best of which was her first American White Pelican chilling in the same score view as a Sandhill Crane.

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2019 Costa Rica Pelicans Birds 121

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 26, 2022

I will start by telling you about encounters in Turkey with two special bird families. I really should have encountered these families in Mexico, as they both occur here. The second family is definitely not one that you would find in an urban center. And, doubly happily, I now have enough material for many future posts.

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Spain Turkey Mexico Agenda 162

10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2019

The week of President’s Day this year found me, my family, and some close friends spending a week in a beach house on Tybee Island, a low-lying, barrier island just east of Savannah. Boat-tailed Grackles were ubiquitous and at any time a Brown Pelican could fly overhead. It didn’t get any.

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Georgia Cats Neutering Feral Cats 176

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 29, 2020

The third weekend of January, I travelled to the coastal city of Acapulco to give a seminar on family finances at a church there. And my one lifer for the trip was a family of Rufous-naped Wrens that apparently live in the same garden. We saw lots of the usual Heron, Egret, Cormorant, and Pelican suspects.

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2006 Morocco Birds Mexico 160

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 5, 2012

Matheson Hammock County Park is a special place to many who grew up in the Miami area, filled with the nostalgia of taking one’s first swim in the ocean, seeing their first Brown Pelicans , or dip netting through the seagrass beds to find Pygmy Seahorses (the most coveted and prized catch).

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Here and there, spits of pale sand became playgrounds for families and dogs, or hunting areas for Great Blue Herons. Brown Pelicans were the most numerous birds, flapping against the wind, diving for lunch, or floating along on the gentle waves. A view of East Bay.

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Bald Eagle Florida Alligators Pelicans 154

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Because when we look at the birds that make up the family Sulidae – not just the tropical boobies, but their burly temperate-zone cousins the gannets as well – we see a pretty incredible group of birds. Osprey and Brown Pelicans can pull off some impressive dives, but the none have the panache of a Sulid.

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Birds Buffalo Pelicans 2012 195

10,000 Birds

MARCH 23, 2020

Brown Pelican – This is a bird that will just take some luck while I am staring at the ocean. Either way, the odds of actually getting a Brown Pelican in Queens are pretty low. Great Shearwater – At this point, seabirds are my weakest family in Queens with the most species having reported in the borough that I have not seen.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2012

Furthermore we have another very special stork-like bird, the regal Shoebill , previously known as the Whale-headed Stork but now placed in its own family. This colossal bird is now placed in its own family Balaenicipitidae and it forms an ancient link between storks and pelicans.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

The Peterson Reference Guide to Seawatching offers two types of information: Species Accounts–descriptions of 112 birds within 15 families as they appear over and on the water, and Where to Watch, brief descriptions of 47 sites on the North American eastern coast and interior recommended for seawatching.

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Ducks Groups North America North Dakota 229

10,000 Birds

MAY 21, 2013

Along the way we witnessed a Great Blue Heron rookery with a fly-by Bullock’s Oriole , a pod of American White Pelicans just chilling, a pair of Red-tailed Hawks making goo-goo eyes at each other, Cliff Swallows swarming like mosquitoes, and Long-billed Curlews that nearly blended into their scrubby surroundings.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 31, 2016

Escambia Bay was fairly calm, and it was easy to pick out the dark silhouettes of Brown Pelicans floating on the water. A lone Great Blue Heron stalked prey in the shallows, eventually taking flight when a family (and their dog) made it to the sand.

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United States Florida Pelicans Birds 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2013

We had a wonderful family vacation in Germany and the Czech Republic during which I managed to do a bit of birding. Then I slowed down a bit but still found an insanely good bird for Queens , chased a rare duck , went out to Montauk , saw a pelican , and nabbed a good goose in the Bronx. fledgling Song Thrush about to be fed.

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2012 Czech Republic Hedgehogs Hungary 143

10,000 Birds

JUNE 19, 2018

Taking advantage of my son, Desmond, having this past Friday off from school our small family decided to do a three-day trip somewhere. At the beach there were non stop Magnificent Frigatebirds overhead, Sandwich Terns and Royal Terns working the waves, and Brown Pelicans dropping in regularly. My third endemic lifer of the weekend!

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Monkeys Family Deer Pelicans 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2020

I should add that the Big Owls taking over NYC social and even hard print media, dominating conversations with my nonbirder friends and family, are not the only owls in the five boroughs, but like a musical, the closer you are to Broadway, the closer you are to fame and fortune (and maybe even a higher quality rodent for dinner, who knows?). .”

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New York City Fox Owls California Condor 184

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2018

We need to create bridges (and a very happy experience with a local ranching family led us to believe that this is possible). But, it seems to me the main ingredient for supporting grassland birds is to convince the ranchers and farmers to participate in these programs. back to the birds.

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North Dakota Sparrows Birds Blackbirds 137

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 23, 2017

Eventually we made our way out to the beach where not much was going on except for the occasional Brown Pelican. Whether you are a hard-core birder or a family out for a nature walk I think you will enjoy visiting. This picture of the Green-throated Carib is kind of gross but it was the best shot I got. Photo by Mike.).

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Puerto Rico Birds Woodpeckers 2017 105

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2020

” I’m down as the observer of a White Pelican at the Whitestone Bridge on Dec. Clearly, members of the birding community and their families–thanked in the opening Acknowledgments section–played a strong role in getting this project done. . An identification guide for an overlooked bird family?

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New York City New York Birds Breeding 148

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

But, as I have mentioned, this was not a birding excursion but a beach vacation with the family and friends, so seeing seabirds was not high on the list of priorities when we planned the trip. Magnificent Frigatebirds and Brown Pelicans are easy to find, just look up regularly and you will get them.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 8, 2012

This is the story of the pelicans of New Zealand. Australian Pelican ( Pelecanus conspicillatus ) at Centennial Park, Sydney No pelicans were recorded in New Zealand when the Europeans first arrived, and it wasn’t until 1930 that fossils of pelicans were discovered in a cave in central North Island.

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New Zealand Pelicans Solomon Islands Palau 178

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

.” The higher waterbird clade is a wonderfully diverse group consisting of loons, penguins, tubenoses, storks, Suliformes , herons and ibises, pelicans , the Shoebill , and the Hamerkop. Four families are often recognized: storm-petrels, albatrosses, shearwaters and petrels , and diving-petrels.

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